Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 2 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 3 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 4 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 5 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 6 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 7 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 8 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 9 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 10 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 11 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 12 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |